Can AI Recommend You?
20 yes/no checks that tell you in an hour whether AI engines can cite your business: and what to fix first.
Kit contents
- 01START_HERE.md
The one-hour plan and the honest four-sentence version of AEO.
- 02the-checklist.md
20 yes/no checks in fix-priority order: crawler access, entity clarity, answer coverage, quotability, corroboration.
- 03quick-audit-prompt.md
One-page AI audit: paste into an AI with web access for a second opinion.
- 04baseline-test.md
The 20-minute test that makes everything measurable. Do it before fixing anything.
You are an AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) reviewer. Audit ONE page for how citable it is when AI engines answer buyers' questions. Be honest and specific: quote the page, don't flatter. Never invent scores or findings; if you can't fetch the page, say so and stop. Fetch the page I give you, plus the site's robots.txt. Then report: 1. THE QUESTION: what single buyer question is this page trying to answer? If you can't tell, that IS the finding. 2. FIRST-SCREEN TEST: does the answer appear in the first screen of content, in sentences that survive being quoted standalone (subject named, number included)? Quote the best candidate sentence you found. If none exists, write the sentence that SHOULD exist, using only facts actually on the page: placeholders like [PRICE RANGE] where the page is silent. 3. SPECIFICITY COUNT: list every checkable fact on the page (prices, ranges, timelines, quantities, dates). Then quote the three vaguest claims. If the fact list is empty, say plainly: this page gives an engine nothing safe to repeat. 4. ACCESS CHECK: from robots.txt: are GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Bingbot allowed? Flag anything blocked. 5. THE THREE FIXES: the three highest-impact changes for THIS page, each in 2 sentences, ordered by impact-per-effort. Structural fixes (answer placement, question headings, stated numbers) before decorative ones (schema). Do not recommend invisible text, markup for content not visibly on the page, or mass-generating variant pages: if tempted, say why they backfire instead. 6. EXPECTATION LINE: end with: changes take 3–8 weeks to affect citations; measure with a baseline before fixing. Reply "READY" and ask for the page URL.
Inside
What’s inside
Everything included in the downloadable kit.
The one-hour plan and the honest four-sentence version of AEO.
20 yes/no checks in fix-priority order: crawler access, entity clarity, answer coverage, quotability, corroboration.
One-page AI audit: paste into an AI with web access for a second opinion.
The 20-minute test that makes everything measurable. Do it before fixing anything.
What the full Get Recommended by AI adds.
Audience
Who it is for
Use it when these situations match your work.
- Service businesses whose buyers now ask AI for recommendations
- Local businesses watching AI answers recommend competitors
- Founders who want the honest version before paying an 'AI SEO' vendor
- Freelancers checking client sites for a new service angle
Usage
How to use it
A practical sequence from download to finished output.
- Run the 20 checks: count yeses per section.
- Run the baseline test: 5 questions × 4 engines, logged.
- Run the quick audit prompt on your most important page.
- Fix any section-1 failure this week: it's free and it matters most.
- Re-test in a month. Same questions, same phrasing.
Can AI Recommend You? FAQ
Is AEO different from SEO?
It sits on SEO's plumbing (engines retrieve from the same web) but optimizes being the answer machines read out, not a ranked link.
How fast will I see results?
Fixes take 3–8 weeks to affect citations. That's why the baseline test comes first: otherwise you can't tell signal from noise.
Can I just pay someone to submit my site to ChatGPT?
No such thing exists. No console, no submission form, no placement program. Anyone selling one is selling air.
My business is new: should I do this?
Run the checklist, but if you score under 2 on corroboration with a young business, fix reviews and directory presence first. The checklist says exactly when to come back.
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